A stroll through the ages in Canosa di Puglia
Canosa di Puglia’s multiple sites, most of which can be visited, bear witness to a thousands years long history that has seen them seamless protagonists from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages.
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* Opening times are liable to change depending on the requirements of the museum/park, so please check back in the notice section for any changes before your visit.
Notices(2)
- Respect of the chosen entry time
We remind visitors that it is mandatory to show up at the site’s entrance exactly at the time chosen during the purchase.
- free admission
The first Sunday of each month access to all institutes and places of culture is free, including, in the absence of a separate exhibition itinerary or of a separate ticket, the spaces in which exhibitions or temporary exhibitions are held. Admission will also be free on the following days: 25th April; 2nd June; 4th November.
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- Audioguide
- Guided Tours
- Info Point
- Pets allowed with carrier
Reductions(6)
For REDUCED and FREE tickets, proof of the right to use these tickets will have to be shown. Where the visitor fails to produce such documentation at the ticket office, a FULL-PRICE ticket will have to be purchased.
Free
13types- •European Union tourist guides in the exercise of their professional activity, presenting a valid licence issued by the competent authority
- •Tour interpreters from the European Union working alongside the guide, upon presentation of a valid licence issued by the competent authority
- •To the staff of the Ministry of Culture
- •Members of I.C.O.M. (International Council of Museums)
- •Visitors under the age of eighteen. Under-twelves must be accompanied by an adult
- •To public and private school groups of the European Union alongside their teachers, subjected to booking and in the quota established by the head of the institution or cultural site.
- •Lecturers and students on degree courses, specialist degree courses or post-graduate specialisation and PhD courses in the following faculties: architecture, conservation of cultural heritage, education sciences or literature and philosophy with an archaeological or historical-artistic focus. The same benefits are due to teachers and students of corresponding universities or courses, present in the European Union States.
- •Teachers and students enrolled in Fine Arts Academies or corresponding institutes of the European Union, by showing their enrolment certificate for the current academic year
- •Teaching staff -permanent school or with a fixed-term contract- of the Italian school, upon presentation of a suitable certificate issued by the educational institutions. The certificate is annual and valid for the academic year in progress.
- •Disabled persons and one family member or companion who can show their membership to health and care services.
- •To the operators of voluntary associations who carry out, on the basis of existing agreements with the Ministry, activities to promote knowledge of cultural heritage.
- •Italian and foreign scholars for study or research purposes certified by Italian or foreign school or university institutions, academies, research and culture institutes as well as by the Ministry, for particular and justified needs, the Directors can allow individual subjects who request it free admission for specific periods.
- •Free entry to state cultural sites is permitted to teachers and students of AFAM (Higher Education in Art and Music) schools, upon presentation of the appropriate forms.
Reduced
2types- •EU citizens aged between 18 and 25 (the age limit is considered exceeded from the day following the completion of the 25th year of age).
- •To citizens of countries outside the European Union, on condition of reciprocity.
Full price Cumulative
1Type- •Allows FULL PRICE entrance to Canne della Battaglia Antiquarium and Archaeological Park and Canosa di Puglia National Archaeological Museum.
Reduced Cumulative
1Type- •Allows REDUCED entrance to Canne della Battaglia Antiquarium and Archaeological Park and to Canosa di Puglia National Archaeological Museum.
Puglia Musei Card
1Type- •The subscription is NAME-SPECIFIC. It allows unlimited admissions for 6 months in all the museums of the Regional Directorate of Museums of Puglia. The Taranto National Archaeological Museum (MArTA) is NOT included.
Museo Card
1Type- •The subscription is NAME-SPECIFIC. It allows unlimited entry for 6 months in ONE of the museums of the Regional Directorate of Museums of Puglia. Taranto National Archaeological Museum (MArTA) is NOT included.
Description
The National Archaeological Museum
The modern center of Canosa di Puglia, a few kilometers away from Barletta and Castel del Monte, on a small hill overlooking the Tavoliere and the Ofanto valley, is very rich in archaeological evidence, collected in the city museum.
Housed in a building from the late 19th century, Palazzo Sinesi, the National Archaeological Museum displays artefacts from ancient tombs and rich Hellenistic hypogea, testifying to the customs and mentality of Canosa society and the high quality of local craftsmanship between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC.
A flourishing Daunian centre
The birth of the museum is closely linked to the city. The territory has been occupied since the Bronze Age. In the Archaic period and between the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. it saw an increasingly uniform distribution of inhabited areas and socially significant groups begin to emerge. Between the 5th and 4th centuries, the dominant groups consolidated their political and economic positions and Canosa became one of the most important centres in Daunia.
The most significant archaeological documentation from this period is the hypogea, underground tombs dug into the natural tuff bank, and their opulent grave goods, a symbol in the 4th century BC of the importance of those particular families within the community.
Original ceramic production
The exhibits in the museum testify to the outstanding abilities of the local craftsmen when it came to ceramics. In fact, Canosa is one of the most active centres for the production of typical Daunian subgeometrical pottery. The large vessels, jugs and vases for dipping, pouring and drinking found among grave goods, reflect forms of conviviality linked to funerals and stand out for their high quality and variety of decoration.
From the second half of the 4th century B.C., wealthy Canosans began to purchase Apulian red-figure vases as grave goods. To meet the demands of the new local clientele, some craftsmen moved their workshops to the Daunian area, giving rise to new techniques for assembling and decorating vases that led to the birth of a highly original line of products: polychrome and plastic pottery, known as canosina. The grave goods from the Hypogeum of vico San Martino, exhibited in the second room of the Museum, are made up of many examples of Apulian red-figure pottery which flank the vases of the Daunian tradition and other prestigious goods such as weapons and metals.
A tomb of extraordinary nobility
Discovered in 1912, the Varrese Hypogeum belonged to a prominent Canosa family for several generations from the mid-4th century until the end of the following century. This chamber tomb has yielded more than 400 artefacts, now on display in the last three rooms of the museum. The hypogeum did not only turn up large Apulian red-figure vases decorated with scenes from mythology (Apulian red-figure phiale, 315-330 BC), but also a very well-preserved set of Canosan vases, characterised by rich polychromy and the addition of applied decorative elements (polychrome and plastic Askos, late 4th century BC).
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